Despite United's FA Cups hopes being dashed by defeat to Swansea on Sunday, David Moyes insisted the club are unlikely to sign players this month.

David Moyes was unable to offer any transfer window salvation last night as Manchester United’s campaign once again lurched into a new crisis.

Disillusioned United fans jeered the Reds off after a second successive home defeat in five days saw the FA Cup campaign fall at the first hurdle against Swansea.

It was only United’s second third round exit in 30 years.

Following on from the 2-1 New Year’s Day defeat to Spurs this cup KO is the second time this season the Reds have lost back-to-back matches at Old Trafford having been beaten in the league by Everton and Newcastle in December.

The Reds support is now demanding action in the January transfer window to pep up a season that is dying on its feet in the Premier League and with one trophy now chalked off the wish list.

After making six changes to the side beaten on January 1, Moyes watched others step up for senior action but largely fail to make an impact.

A mid-season injection of new faces is the hope the fans are clinging to but Moyes said: “I have said I will try to get players but it will probably be doubtful I will in January because of the window. I have said that quite consistently.

“There is an urgency that we would like to bring players in but are those players available in January? There is no point in me hyping it up and saying we are because players that we would like to bring in are probably not available in January.

“It is not because we don’t want to do it – it is because they are not available.”

Fourteen of Moyes’ recognised senior squad were either unavailable with injury or on the bench and rested in readiness for tomorrow night’s Capital One semi-final first leg at Sunderland.

Moyes has worked his way through the Reds pool of first-teamers and is desperate to add imports but still believes his XI to face Swansea yesterday was good enough to book United a place in round four.

“We had a strong team out. Everybody is getting their opportunity to show what they can do and, hopefully, then I will make my decisions from that,” he said.

“We have another big game in 48 hours time so we had to keep that in mind. But there are no excuses. We had a very strong team out. Just about every player we had on the pitch was an international player.

“I thought we had played quite well in the first half. We should have taken more chances when the opportunities were there and to create more chances as well.

“I don’t think we came away from the game thinking we deserved to lose it but we did.

“We played well enough. Swansea hadn’t been up the pitch at all when they got the first goal. We had bossed most of the game. We did well and got back into it very quickly. The period after that was when we should have gone on and forced the second goal and we didn’t do so.

“You can definitely see we are just lacking that little bit of confidence when we get into the final third at times and not taking chances we are getting.

“We need to get back to winning ways and be hard to play against and most importantly take something out of the good play we have had in games and get some goals. We just didn’t do that today.

“We need to win and we have to make sure we find a solution so we win.

“My job is to find a way of winning. It doesn’t matter what style you have to find a way of winning. That is what we have to try and do.

“It has been a tough start. I am disappointed we have not won more games. But I am sure it will change – I have no doubt about that.”

Moyes agreed it was a red card for Brazilian full-back Fabio in the 80th minute just four minutes after coming on as a sub.

“Going down to ten men late on was a turning point in the game,” he added.

“It was a sending off. It changed it because we had had the most control of the game. I felt relatively comfortable without getting the second goal.”

Darren Fletcher admitted Swansea’s win was a bad one for United.

“It’s a massive blow. Let’s not kid ourselves here, this is a really bad result, and there are a lot of angry, hurt players,” he said.

“We feel we have let the manager and the fans and everyone down by losing and it’s not good enough and we’re going to have to raise our performance levels.”

Fletcher says the Reds must now get back off the canvas and answer their critics at the Stadium of Light tomorrow night in the Capital One Cup semi-final first leg against Sunderland.

“It’s a League Cup semi-final and if you can’t lift yourself for that then it’s no good,” Fletcher added.

“We know it’s a quick turnaround but we need to really put in a performance now and show people we are a good team and are looking to win competitions.

“We’ve got a great opportunity, we’ve got a tough game away to Sunderland, we know that, but we’ve got to really recover quickly and really lift ourselves because that’s a massive game now.”

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